Election of Speaker

Mr. Speaker: I have to report that this House has been in the House of Lords where Her Majesty, by Her Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself for the Office of Speaker. I have, in your name and on your behalf, made claim by humble petition to Her Majesty to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest and freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion shall require, and that the most favourable construction shall be put upon all proceedings. All these Her Majesty, by Her Commissioners, has been pleased to confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by Herself or by any of Her Royal Predecessors.
	My first duty to the House is to report my respectful acknowledgement and grateful thanks for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the Chair.

Members Sworn

Mr. Speaker: I must now call upon the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance at the Table of the House, first doing so myself.
	Thereupon Mr. Speaker first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.

Mr. Speaker: Before Members take the Oath or affirm, I remind the House of the ruling of my predecessor regarding the use of facilities by Members who have not taken their seats. The services of the Departments of the House, as specified by my predecessor, will not be available to Members who have not taken the Oath or affirmed before the date of the Queen's Speech, next Wednesday. The only exception will be Members who, before that date, have sent me a letter informing me that, for health or other good reasons, they cannot attend to take their seats immediately after the election but desire to do so at the earliest possible moment.
	It may be for the convenience of the House if I indicate my intentions with regard to the taking of the Oath by right. hon. and hon. Members. I propose to call, first, the members of the Cabinet; then the shadow Cabinet; then all Privy Councillors not included in those two groups, wherever they may be sitting; and then other Ministers. Thereafter I shall call other hon. Members according to seniority determined on the basis of the Parliament of first entry or, for those with broken service, that of most recent entry.
	The first batch will be those elected in or before the 1983 Parliament. Thereafter I shall proceed to call Members to take the Oath or affirm by successive Parliaments. I hope that, by late this afternoon, we will have made sufficient progress to enable all Members to swear in who wish to do so, up to and including those elected to the 1992 Parliament. The House will sit again tomorrow at 9.30, when I shall call Members first elected to the 1997 Parliament or to the current Parliament as well as Members elected to earlier Parliaments who were not able to take the Oath today.
	Finally, the House will meet again next Tuesday at 2.30 to enable Members to take the Oath who were not able to do so this week.
	Those arrangements are very similar to those adopted at the start of the previous Parliament in 1997, and they follow the recommendations of the Procedure Committee. I hope that this announcement will be helpful to Members in planning their programmes. Progress will depend, of course, on the number of Members wishing to take the Oath at any particular time. I advise Members to watch the annunciators to establish progress, and to speak to their Whips.
	I also hope that Members will come forward in an orderly manner. I remind Members that the taking of the Oath, as a proceeding of the House, is recorded by the television cameras and that anything said by Members may appear on television or be picked up by microphones. Let us now begin.
	The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
	Right honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Sedgefield
	Right honourable John Leslie Prescott, Kingston upon Hull East
	Right honourable James Gordon Brown, Dunfermline East
	Right honourable John Whitaker Straw, Blackburn
	Right honourable David Blunkett, Sheffield, Brightside
	Right honourable Margaret Mary Beckett, Derby South
	Right honourable Clare Short, Birmingham, Ladywood
	Right honourable Andrew David Smith, Oxford East
	Right honourable Alan Milburn, Darlington
	Right honourable Tessa Jane Jowell, Dulwich & West Norwood
	Right honourable Helen Liddell, Airdrie & Shotts
	Right honourable Geoffrey William Hoon, Ashfield
	Right honourable Paul Peter Murphy, Torfaen
	Right honourable Estelle Morris, Birmingham, Yardley
	Right honourable Patricia Hope Hewitt, Leicester West
	Charles Rodway Clarke, Norwich South
	Right honourable John Reid, Hamilton North & Bellshill
	Right honourable Hilary Jane Armstrong, North West Durham
	Right honourable Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Horsham
	Right honourable Ann Noreen Widdecombe, Maidstone & The Weald
	Angela Frances Browning, Tiverton & Honiton
	Right honourable Andrew James Mackay, Bracknell
	David Lindsay Willetts, Havant
	Andrew David Lansley, South Cambridgeshire
	Edward Henry Garnier, Harborough
	Gary Nicholas Streeter, South West Devon
	Theresa Mary May, Maidenhead
	Oliver Letwin, West Dorset
	Archibald John Norman, Tunbridge Wells
	Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo, South Suffolk
	Peter Michael Ainsworth, East Surrey
	Right honourable David Philip Heathcoat-Amory, Wells
	Right honourable James Norwich Arbuthnot, North East Hampshire
	Right honourable John Anderson Cunningham, Copeland
	Right honourable Gerald Bernard Kaufman, Manchester, Gorton
	Right honourable Ian McCartney, Makerfield
	Right honourable Keith John Charles Bradley, Manchester, Withington
	Right honourable Alun Edward Michael, Cardiff South & Penarth
	Right honourable Paul Yaw Boateng, Brent South
	Right honourable Adam Ingram, East Kilbride
	Right honourable Charles Peter Kennedy, Ross, Skye & Inverness West
	Right honourable David Trimble, Upper Bann
	Right honourable Derek Foster, Bishop Auckland
	Right honourable Frank Gordon Dobson, Holborn & St Pancras
	Right honourable David Maurice Curry, Skipton & Ripon
	Right honourable Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Gateshead East & Washington West
	Right honourable Winifred Ann Taylor, Dewsbury
	Right honourable Thomas Clarke, Coatbridge & Chryston
	Right honourable Sir Brian Stanley Mawhinney, North West Cambridgeshire
	Right honourable David John Maclean, Penrith & The Border
	Right honourable Douglas Martin Hogg, Sleaford & North Hykeham
	Right honourable Eric Forth, Bromley & Chislehurst
	Right honourable David Michael Davis, Haltemprice & Howden
	Right honourable John Michael Jack, Fylde
	Right honourable John Alan Redwood, Wokingham
	Right honourable Walter Menzies Campbell, North East Fife
	Right honourable Sir Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Saffron Walden
	Right honourable Kenneth Harry Clarke, Rushcliffe
	Right honourable Terry Davis, Birmingham, Hodge Hill
	Right honourable Michael Howard, Folkestone & Hythe
	Right honourable Michael Andrew Ancram, Devizes
	Right honourable Gregory Knight, East Yorkshire
	Right honourable John Yorke Denham, Southampton, Itchen
	Melanie Jane Johnson, Welwyn Hatfield
	Beverley June Hughes, Stretford & Urmston
	Robert William Ainsworth, Coventry North East
	John Francis Spellar, Warley
	George Foulkes, Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley
	Graham Eric Stringer, Manchester, Blackley
	Denis MacShane, Rotherham
	Lynda Margaret Clark, Edinburgh Pentlands
	Right honourable Frank Field, Birkenhead
	The Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, North Antrim
	The Reverend William Martin Smyth, Belfast South
	James Donnelly Touhig, Islwyn
	Dawn Primarolo, Bristol South
	Douglas Alexander, Paisley South
	Ruth Maria Kelly, Bolton West
	Elliot Anthony Morley, Scunthorpe
	Brian Wilson, Cunninghame North
	Anne McGuire, Stirling
	David Charles Jamieson, Plymouth, Devonport
	Hazel Anne Blears, Salford
	Gerald Sutcliffe, Bradford South
	Right honourable Bruce Thomas George, Walsall South
	Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw, Exeter
	Desmond Henry Browne, Kilmarnock & Loudoun
	Jacqueline Jill Smith, Redditch
	Christopher Michael Leslie, Shipley
	Sally Curtis Keeble, Northampton North
	Rosalie Winterton, Doncaster Central
	Hilary James Benn, Leeds Central
	Keith Hill, Streatham
	Angela Evans Smith, Basildon
	Ivor Keith Caplin, Hove
	James Fitzpatrick, Poplar & Canning Town
	Anthony James McNulty, Harrow East
	David George Hanson, Delyn
	Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy, Glasgow Rutherglen
	Nicholas Richard Ainger, Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire
	Dan Norris, Wansdyke
	Kevin McNamara, Kingston upon Hull North
	David Julian Winnick, Walsall North
	David Marshall, Glasgow Shettleston
	Sir Patrick Thomas Cormack, South Staffordshire
	Martin John O'Neill, Ochil
	Marion Audrey Roe, Broxbourne
	Francis Cook, Stockton North
	William O'Brien, Normanton
	Peter David Robinson, Belfast East
	Margaret Eve Hodge, Barking
	Thomas Michael Cox, Tooting
	James Marshall, Leicester South
	Brian Charles John Sedgemore, Hackney South & Shoreditch
	John Arbuthnot Du Cane Wilkinson, Ruislip-Northwood
	John David McWilliam, Blaydon
	Roy Beggs, East Antrim
	Jane Ann Winterton, Congleton
	Sir Raymond Powell, Ogmore
	Mark Fisher, Stoke-on-Trent Central
	John McFall, Dumbarton
	Peter Kilfoyle, Liverpool, Walton
	Anthony Joseph Lloyd, Manchester Central
	Ann Clwyd, Cynon Valley
	Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody, Crewe & Nantwich
	Catharine Letitia Hoey, Vauxhall
	Right honourable Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Hartlepool
	Angela Eagle, Wallasey
	Maria Eagle, Liverpool, Garston
	Terence Lewis, Worsley
	Robert Nelson Wareing, Liverpool, West Derby
	Winston James Griffiths, Bridgend
	Roger James Gale, North Thanet
	Simon Robert, Key, Salisbury
	Sir Sydney Brooks Chapman, Chipping Barnet
	Peter James Bottomley, Worthing West
	John Mark Taylor, Solihull
	Edward Julian Egerton Leigh, Gainsborough
	Michael Nicholson Lord, Central Suffolk & North Ipswich
	Jonathan Sayeed, Mid Bedfordshire
	Antony Brian Baldry, Banbury
	David Anthony Atkinson, Bournemouth East
	Anne Campbell, Cambridge
	Glenda May Jackson, Hampstead & Highgate
	John Battle, Leeds West
	Simon Henry Ward Hughes, North Southwark & Bermondsey
	Kevin John Barron, Rother Valley
	Paul Philip Flynn, Newport West
	Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, Roxburgh & Berwickshire
	David Martin Hinchliffe, Wakefield
	Alice Mahon, Halifax
	Diana Julie Abbott, Hackney North & Stoke Newington
	Harold Barnes, North East Derbyshire
	Ronald Campbell, Blyth Valley
	Gerald Neil Steinberg, City of Durham
	John Scott Cummings, Easington
	Ernest Ross, Dundee West
	Katherine Adams, Paisley North
	Terence Henry Rooney, Bradford North
	George William Stevenson, Stoke-on-Trent South
	Fraser Kemp, Houghton & Washington East
	Ian Phares Pearson, Dudley South
	John Heppell, Nottingham East
	Phillip James Woolas, Oldham East & Saddleworth
	Ivan Lewis, Bury South
	Sylvia Lloyd Heal, Halesowen & Rowley Regis
	Andrew Peter Miller, Ellesmere Port & Neston
	John Valentine Butterfill, Bournemouth West
	James Douglas Cran, Beverley & Holderness
	John Quentin Davies, Grantham & Stamford
	Alex Elliot Anderson Salmond, Banff & Buchan
	William James Clappison, Hertsmere
	John Matthew Patrick Hutton, Barrow & Furness
	Jean Ann Corston, Bristol East
	Gregory James Pope, Hyndburn
	Jon Owen Jones, Cardiff Central
	Dennis Turner, Wolverhampton South East
	Peter Landreth Atkinson, Hexham
	Oliver Heald, North East Hertfordshire
	Nicholas John Hawkins, Surrey Heath
	Nigel Martin Evans, Ribble Valley
	Elfyn Llwyd, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
	Alan John Simpson, Nottingham South
	George Edward Mudie, Leeds East
	Kevin Michael Hughes, Doncaster North
	Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, Mid Sussex
	Bridget Prentice, Lewisham East
	Michael Thomas Hall, Weaver Vale
	Ian Stewart, Eccles
	John Derek Twigg, Halton
	Elizabeth Marion Blackman, Erewash
	Mark Wainwright Todd, South Derbyshire
	Colin Pickthall, West Lancashire
	Barry Strachan Gardiner, Brent North
	Dari Jean Taylor, Stockton South
	Caroline Louise Flint, Don Valley
	Linda Perham, Ilford North
	Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh, Vale of York
	John Simon Bercow, Buckingham
	Michael Thomas Hancock, Portsmouth South
	Graham Stuart Brady, Altrincham & Sale West
	Alexander John Randall, Uxbridge
	Janet Elizabeth Ann Dean, Burton
	David Neil Kidney, Stafford
	Desmond Stanley Turner, Brighton, Kemptown
	John Rhodes Horam, Orpington
	Frank Doran, Aberdeen Central
	Joan Mary Ruddock, Lewisham, Deptford
	Kali Carol Jean Mountford, Colne Valley
	James Edward Thornton Paice, South East Cambridgeshire
	Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan, Chesham & Amersham
	Timothy Eric Boswell, Daventry
	Richard Michael Bacon, South Norfolk
	Stephen John Ladyman, South Thanet
	William Ernest Rammell, Harlow
	Denis Murphy, Wansbeck
	Christine McCafferty, Calder Valley
	James Andrew Plaskitt, Warwick & Leamington
	Gareth Richard Thomas, Harrow West
	Gareth Thomas, Clwyd West
	Hugh Bayley, City of York
	Ross Frederick Cranston, Dudley North
	Constance Ann Cryer, Keighley
	Ian Colin Taylor, Esher & Walton
	Ian Gibson, Norwich North
	Rachel Anne Squire, Dunfermline West
	David John Stewart, Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber
	William Tynan, Hamilton South
	Frank Roy, Motherwell & Wishaw
	Michael Connarty, Falkirk East
	Helen Margaret Jackson, Sheffield, Hillsborough
	Kerry Patrick Pollard, St Albans
	James Dolan Cunningham, Coventry South
	Barbara Maureen Roche, Hornsey & Wood Green
	William John Olner, Nuneaton
	Sir Paul Alexander Beresford, Mole Valley
	Brian David Jenkins, Tamworth
	James Keith Chapman, Wirral South
	John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, Maldon & East Chelmsford
	Adrian Edward Bailey, West Bromwich West
	John Robertson, Glasgow Anniesland
	Ivan John Henderson, Harwich
	Anthony Richard Clarke, Northampton South
	John Henry Hayes, South Holland & The Deepings
	Alan Arthur Hurst, Braintree
	Michael Clapham, Barnsley West & Penistone
	Kenneth Purchase, Wolverhampton North East
	Shona McIsaac, Cleethorpes
	Helen Mary Jones, Warrington North
	Ian Arthur Cawsey, Brigg & Goole
	Mike Wood, Batley & Spen
	Jon Hedley Trickett, Hemsworth
	Brian Iddon, Bolton South East
	John Douglas Naysmith, Bristol North West
	Harold Best, Leeds North West
	Vernon Rodney Coaker, Gedling
	Lawrence William Quinn, Scarborough & Whitby
	Alan Campbell, Tynemouth
	Neil Turner, Wigan
	Nicholas Raymond Winterton, Macclesfield
	Rosemary McKenna, Cumbernauld & Kilsyth
	Patrick Hall, Bedford
	Richard John Grenville Spring, West Suffolk
	Alan Keen, Feltham & Heston
	Ann Lloyd Keen, Brentford & Isleworth
	Valerie Davey, Bristol West
	Charlotte Atkins, Staffordshire Moorlands
	John Cradock Maples, Stratford-on-Avon
	Huw William Edmund Edwards, Monmouth
	Martyn David Jones, Clwyd South
	Sydney Norman John Rapson, Portsmouth North
	John Eric Austin, Erith & Thamesmead
	Nigel David Jones, Cheltenham
	Andrew Mackinlay, Thurrock
	John Robert Cryer, Hornchurch
	Right honourable Harriet Harman, Camberwell & Peckham
	Andrew John Reed, Loughborough
	Jovanka Joan Humble, Blackpool North & Fleetwood
	Phyllis Margaret Starkey, Milton Keynes South West
	Michael O'Brien, North Warwickshire
	Andrew King, Rugby & Kenilworth
	Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway, Croydon South
	Malcolm Kemp Savidge, Aberdeen North
	Margaret Patricia Munn, Sheffield, Heeley
	Stephen Hepburn, Jarrow
	Stephen James McCabe, Birmingham, Hall Green
	Christopher John Mullin, Sunderland South
	Calum Alistair Macdonald, Western Isles
	Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Bath
	Evan Leslie Harris, Oxford West & Abingdon
	David William St. John Heath, Somerton & Frome
	Andrew Henry George, St Ives
	Robert Laxton, Derby North
	David Leslie Taylor, North West Leicestershire
	Linda Gilroy, Plymouth, Sutton
	Gordon Prentice, Pendle
	Rudi Jan Vis, Finchley & Golders Green
	Yvette Cooper, Pontefract & Castleford
	Stephen Creswell Timms, East Ham
	Jim Murphy, Eastwood
	Stephen Rothwell O'Brien, Eddisbury
	David Digby Rendel, Newbury
	Nicolas John Gibb, Bognor Regis & Littlehampton
	Iris Robinson, Strangford
	Nigel Alexander Dodds, Belfast North
	Gregory Lloyd Campbell, East Londonderry
	William David Wiggin, Leominster
	Andrew Richard Rosindell, Romford
	David William Donald Cameron, Witney
	George Galloway, Glasgow Kelvin
	James Hood, Clydesdale
	Kevin Denis Brennan, Cardiff West
	Colin Robert Challen, Morley & Rothwell
	Marek Jerzy Lazarowicz, Edinburgh North & Leith
	Wayne David, Caerphilly
	Simon Patrick Tipping, Sherwood
	Christopher Stephen Grayling, Epsom & Ewell
	Laurence Anthony Robertson, Tewkesbury
	Jonathan Cruddas, Dagenham
	Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, Lagan Valley
	Jamie Charles Cann, Ipswich
	Ann McKechin, Glasgow Maryhill
	Anthony Wayland Wright, Cannock Chase
	Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt, Reigate
	Edward O'Hara, Knowsley South
	Thomas Anthony Watson, West Bromwich East
	George Phillip Willis, Harrogate & Knaresborough
	Andrew Murray Burnham, Leigh
	James Mark Dakin Purnell, Stalybridge & Hyde
	David Wright, Telford
	Laura Jean Moffatt, Crawley
	Anne Picking, East Lothian
	David Wright Miliband, South Shields
	Derek Murray Wyatt, Sittingbourne & Sheppey
	Susan Kathleen Doughty, Guildford
	John Mann, Bassetlaw
	David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick, Bosworth
	Gillian Joanna Merron, Lincoln
	Kevan David Jones, North Durham
	Right honourable Richard George Caborn, Sheffield Central
	Alan James Carter Duncan, Rutland & Melton
	John Andrew Barrett, Edinburgh West
	Alexander Morrison Carmichael, Orkney & Shetland
	Sandra Julia Gidley, Romsey
	Alan Reid, Argyll & Bute
	John Archibald, Viscount Thurso, Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross
	David Hamilton, Midlothian
	David Hywel Francis, Aberavon
	Mark Phillip Hendrick, Preston
	Colin Edward Breed, South East Cornwall
	Vera Baird, Redcar
	Parmjit Singh Dhanda, Gloucester
	Helen Mary Southworth, Warrington South
	Andrew Love, Edmonton
	Paul David Stinchcombe, Wellingborough
	Janet Anderson, Rossendale & Darwen
	Sandra Osborne, Ayr
	James Patrick Dowd, Lewisham West
	Nicholas Barton Harvey, North Devon

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn until tomorrow at half-past Nine o'clock.--[Mr. Kemp.]
	Adjourned accordingly at one minute past Five o'clock.